"The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains them;so would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace."

-- Denise Levertov

#Lying Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Air Quotes

“Cause I am not a word, I am not a line. I am not a girl that can ever be defined”
“The need for justice grows out of the conflict of human interests. That is to say, if there were no conflict of interests among mankind we should never have invented the word justice, nor conceived the idea for which it stands.”

Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press
“People around me never say anything. They just seem to want to hear what I have to say. That's why I do all the talking.”
“opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.”
“When you're trapped in an abusive home environment you can feel completely hopeless and lost. Remember that situations can change with time, and that it won't be this way forever.”
“Why does a suppurating lung give so little warning and a sore on the finger so much?”
“The U.S. cannot force Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds to make peace or to act for the common good. They have been in conflict for 1,400 years.”
“What we don't need in country music is divisiveness, public criticism of each other, and some arbitrary judgement of what belongs and what doesn't.”

Source : Charley Pride, Jim Henderson (1994). “Pride: the Charley Pride story”, William Morrow & Co

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